Chapter 7 covers Watch Quarter and Station bill, drill and formation, inspections, CPO uniforms, The history of the CPO, awards, and the general mess advisory board.

• Watch, Quarter and Station Bill (WQS) is the commanding officer’s summary of personnel duty assignments and stations. This bill will display your duties for each emergency and watch condition.

• The WQS bill shows name, rate, billet number, bunk, and locker number of each person in the division. It also indicates each person’s battle station.

• The executive officer (XO) is responsible for maintaining a master WQS Bill for the ship.

• Division officers are responsible for updating and changing the WQS bill for the personnel in the division. These changes must be approved by the executive officer(XO).

• Drill and formation:
- intervals are normally one arm’s length measured between individuals from shoulder to shoulder.
- guide: the individual on whom a formation or element regulates its alignment. The guide is usually positioned to the right.
- distance between ranks is 40 inches
- Pace is the length of a full step (30 inches for men and 24 inches for women).
- Step The distance from heel to heel between the feet of a marching person. The half step and back step are 15 inches. The right and left steps 12 inches.
- Attention is the basic military position.
- At ease you can relax and shift about, but you must keep right foot in place. Don’t Talk
- Rest Same as at ease but you may talk at rest. This is the only command where you may talk
- About face is a two count movement.

*Note: these are only a few of the basic drill commands, you may want to review pages 7-3 through 7-6 for more information.

• Inspections:
- Divisions should fall into formation of two of four ranks
- The tallest person should be on the left side of the formation.

- The inspection party normally approaches from the right
• SECNAVINST 5060.22 is the Drill and Ceremonies Manual and Interior Guard Manual

• CPOs with less than 12 years have scarlet service stripes (hash marks)

• Dinner dress uniforms are normally worn at official functions. They are equivalent to a civilian black tie function.

• You normally wear full dress uniforms on ceremonial occasions. You wear medals with full dress uniforms (no ribbons).

• Gold hash marks (service stripes) are worn for 12 or more years of service if you meet the eligibility requirements.

• There are 7 broad categories of awards:
1. Military decorations: given for specific personal act of gallantry or meritorious service, i.e. Purple Heart, Navy Cross, Medal of Honor
2. Unit awards: presented to an operating unit only to members of that unit that participated in the cited action, i.e., Navy “E”.
3. Nonmilitary decorations: decorations are awarded for various actions by an individual, i.e, Gold and Life Saving Medals, Presidential Medal of Freedom
4. Campaign and Service awards: given to personnel who have participated in designated wars, campaigns or fulfilled creditable, specific service requirements. i.e., POW medal, Good Conduct, Antarctica Service Medal.
5. Foreign decorations and non-U.S. service awards: the awards that may be worn are listed in the U.S. Navy Uniform Regs. NAVPERS 156650.
6. Marksmanship Awards: awards for pistol or rifle on a qualifying course.
7. Awards of Military societies and other organizations: are awarded from military societies and other organizations. i.e., Regular Army and Navy Union, Naval Reserve Association and the Moreell Medal

• Ribbons are worn ¼ inch above the left breast pocket. Each row may have no more than 3 ribbons. Persons possessing 4 or more ribbons can wear a minimum of 3 of the most senior ribbons.

• Ribbons are worn with service dress uniforms.

• You may wear two warfare specialty pins at the same time.

• You may not wear a breast insignia or a badge awarded from another services, unless authorized by the Secretary of the Navy.

• Chapter 10 of Uniform regulations covers the proper wearing and positioning of badges and insignias

• You may wear up to 5 medals in one row.

• Refer to pages 7-24 and 7-25 for the wearing of ribbons and medals.

• Gold bullion lace tarnishes rapidly and should only be cleaned by professionals. If you clean it yourself, use commercial nontoxic preparations and liquid cleaners